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Biographical details

Eric Csapo has published widely on all aspects of ancient theatre: festivals, theatre administration and finance, music, staging, actors and acting, iconography, epigraphy, theatre buildings and dramatic literature. Other interests range from cockfighting and kottabos to myth and philosophy.

Research interests

Teaching and supervision

Eric Csapo usually teaches Greek and Roman Myth and various units in Greek language and literature. He is available to supervise thesis on a broad range of topics in ancient mythology, literature and social history.

Current research students

Current projects

In conjunction with his project on The Theatrical Revolution: The Expansion of Theatre Outside Athens (see Selected Grants), Csapo is collaborating with Peter Wilson on a multi-volume social and economic history of the Classical theatre.

Wilson, P., Csapo, E. (2012). From Choregia to Agonothesia: Evidence for the Administration and Finance of the Athenian Theatre in the Late Fourth Century BC. In D Rosenbloom and J Davidson (Eds.), Greek Drama IV: Texts, Contexts, Performance, (pp. 300-321). Oxford, United Kingdom: Aris and Phillips.

Csapo, E. (2012). The Economics, Poetics, Politics, Metaphysics, and Ethics of the "New Music". In D Yatromanolakis (Eds.), Music and Cultural Politics in Greek and Chinese Societies: Volume 1: Greek Antiquity. Cambridge: Harvard University Department of the Classics.

Csapo, E. (2010). The Production and Performance of Comedy in Antiquity. In Gregory W Dobrov (Eds.), Brills Companion to the Study of Greek Comedy, (pp. 103-142). Leiden: Brill.

Csapo, E. (2009). New Music's Gallery of Images: the "Dithyrambic" First Stasimon of Euripides'' Electra. In J.R.C. Cousland and J.R. Hume (Eds.), The Play of Texts and Fragments: Essays in Honour of Martin Cropp, (pp. 95-109). Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.

Csapo, E. (2007). The Men who Built the Theatres: Theatropolai, Theatronai, and Arkhitektones. In Peter Wilson (Eds.), The Greek Theatre and Festivals: Documentary Studies, (pp. 87-121). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Csapo, E. (2004). The Politics of the New Music. In Penelope Murray, Peter Wilson (Eds.), Music and the Muses: the Culture of Mousike in the Classical Athenian City, (pp. 207-248). United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.

Wilson, P., Csapo, E. (2012). From Choregia to Agonothesia: Evidence for the Administration and Finance of the Athenian Theatre in the Late Fourth Century BC. In D Rosenbloom and J Davidson (Eds.), Greek Drama IV: Texts, Contexts, Performance, (pp. 300-321). Oxford, United Kingdom: Aris and Phillips.

Csapo, E. (2012). The Economics, Poetics, Politics, Metaphysics, and Ethics of the "New Music". In D Yatromanolakis (Eds.), Music and Cultural Politics in Greek and Chinese Societies: Volume 1: Greek Antiquity. Cambridge: Harvard University Department of the Classics.

Csapo, E. (2009). New Music's Gallery of Images: the "Dithyrambic" First Stasimon of Euripides'' Electra. In J.R.C. Cousland and J.R. Hume (Eds.), The Play of Texts and Fragments: Essays in Honour of Martin Cropp, (pp. 95-109). Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.

Csapo, E. (2007). The Cultural Poetics of the Greek Cockfight. Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens Newsletter.

Csapo, E. (2007). The Men who Built the Theatres: Theatropolai, Theatronai, and Arkhitektones. In Peter Wilson (Eds.), The Greek Theatre and Festivals: Documentary Studies, (pp. 87-121). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Csapo, E. (2004). The Politics of the New Music. In Penelope Murray, Peter Wilson (Eds.), Music and the Muses: the Culture of Mousike in the Classical Athenian City, (pp. 207-248). United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.